Red Wine

Quinta do Pessegueiro

Tinta da Barca & Alicante Bouschet 2019, 75cl

DOC Douro

Quinta do Pessegueiro

The viticultural year of 2019 was a dry year. The occurrence of occasional precipitation during the harvest period had a very positive impact on the maturation process. The harvest yielded musts of high quality and quite aromatic, generally with higher acidity than in previous years.

The harvest took place in September. The grapes were transported in 22kg crates to the winery. They spent 12 hours in a cold room, were destemmed, partially crushed, and gravity-fed to the granite lagar, where complete alcoholic fermentation occurred with foot treading. Subsequently, the wine was transferred to an oval-shaped cement tank of 1700L, followed by malolactic fermentation. Aging took place in this same tank for 12 months. The wine was bottled in May 2021.

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Quinta do Pessegueiro

The wines produced at Quinta do Pessegueiro seduce for their undeniably superior quality, the result of a complete and balanced project whose objective is to value the originality and properties of each small vineyard in the truest possible way. At the head of a group that became, after 50 years, the leader of children’s fashion, Roger Zannier is today also present in several wine regions of the world, such as the Douro region (Portugal) and Provence (France).

In his frequent visits to Portugal as part of his textile activities, Roger Zannier discovers Quinta do Pessegueiro, being literally seduced by the Douro property and region. In 1991, he acquires the land, immediately starting to plant vineyards. Thus was born his first and one of his most important investments in the wine sector.

The property expanded over the years and is now composed of three plots, all located in the Douro region.

As this region is one of the most unlikely where man has ever tried to plant vines, it took the foresight and modesty of a respectful captain of the land, such as João Nicolau de Almeida, to associate ancestral techniques with the most modern methods of oenology and viticulture.